{"id":2311,"date":"2020-12-09T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T00:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2022-12-17T19:39:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T03:39:22","slug":"talk-prepared-for-memorial-for-prisoners-affected-by-covid-19-december-9-2020-state-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/talk-prepared-for-memorial-for-prisoners-affected-by-covid-19-december-9-2020-state-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk prepared for Memorial for Prisoners Affected by Covid-19, December 9, 2020, State Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memorial for Prisoners<\/a>:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A truly impressive prisoner, Eugene Youngblood, is about to have his sentence commuted after 28 years in prison by Governor Inslee. The Clemency and Pardons board voted 3 to 0 in June 2019 to recommend his release. Eugene was convicted of a gang related murder when he was 18. He is president of the Concerned Lifer\u2019s Organization at the prison in Monroe where he is. He has worked to bring unity among all prisoners, especially between Black and Latino prisoners. Eugene is a deep thinker and an outstanding writer and human being. In prison he has led groups on toxic masculinity, political economy and sustainable farming. He is still in prison and will be a leader for justice and liberation when he is released. I would like to share an analysis Eugene Youngblood wrote from inside Monroe in November of this year, 2020. <\/p>\n

\t\tThe Coronavirus Experience by Eugene Youngblood
\n\u201cThe COVID-19 virus has been running rampant throughout prisons across the nation, even a few here in the state of Washington have been hit hard including where I am, the Monroe Correctional Complex. At the minimum-security unit, which is outside the walls, there were over 100 people infected, prisoners and staff. I am housed inside the walls, and for us there were only a couple of cases. Nevertheless, the truth of the matter is that none of us have escaped the wrath of the Coronavirus. There is so much more to this pandemic than what it does to you physically. When you think of a virus the vast majority of us think about how it attacks you biologically – most viruses enter through your nose, mouth, or breaks in the skin and then spreads from host to host. There is also another kind of virus to consider, a computer virus. A computer virus is a code or program written to disrupt the way a computer operates and is designed to spread from computer to computer. The Coronavirus has characteristics of both. It effects your body, and your brain (your body’s computer) your physical health and your mental health. A computer virus can remain dormant on your computer, without showing any major signs or symptoms that it has been infected. Once it infects your computer, the virus can infect other computers on the same network. This sounds eerily similar to COVID-19 and how people can be asymptomatic (appear to be dormant) but everyone you come in contact with (on your network) are susceptible to becoming infected despite the fact you are not showing any actual symptoms yourself. COVID-19 has had a tremendous physical effect on people including death, but it has also affected how people think and behave – whether you have tested positive or not. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[5,9,10],"tags":[23,29,60,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}